ASKING FOR FLOWERS

"Of all the female singer-songwriters who inhabit the borderland between actual country and general roots music, few have as much presence as Kathleen Edwards. The Canadian inhabits her gritty tunes with the kind of authority that should come from real experience. Hopefully, she hasn't lived through all of her songs, which document rankled love and hard times in grave detail. Over three albums in just five years, she's proven herself a more capably imaginative and intuitive songwriter than Tift Merritt, Allison Moorer, or even post-Car Wheels Lucinda Williams. Edwards may not have the commanding voice of Neko Case, but she usually has better words to sing. (...)" (Stephen M. Deusner, www.pitchforkmedia.com)

Country pop.